Helen May Butler Collection
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Young, Helen May Butler
Musical Instruments, Division of (NMAH, SI)
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1899-1937
bulk 1902-1902
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1 Cubic foot (3 boxes, one oversize folder)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0261
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The materials cover the career of a woman bandmaster with an all women's traveling military band from 1898-1913, with the bulk of the material ca. 1902. Contents include clippings, photographs, programs, sheet music, hand noted music, posters, post cards, advertising fliers, letters, telegram, biographical article announcing candidacy for U.S. Sena...
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Bachelet, Emile, 1863-1946
Bachelet, Albert E.
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1890 - 1973
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0.3 Cubic feet (3 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0302
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents Emile Bachelet, inventor of electro-magnetic therapeutic devices for the treatment of rheumatism.
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Levy, Florence N. (Florence Nightingale), 1870-1947
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1890-1947
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6.6 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 5 reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.levyflor
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Archives of American Art
Letters, scrapbooks, subject files, and printed material, much of it related to her work as editor of American Art Annual and her guidebooks to art in New York.
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Foster, L. F.
Foster, L. F.
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1888-1921
bulk 1890-1910
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2 Cubic feet (5 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1289
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Collection documents Wild West Shows in Oklahoma and Washington, particularly the career of Lewis Frederick Foster who was known for his showmanship and skills.
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Engineering and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Frick Company, George (Waynesboro, Pa.)
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1852-1961
bulk 1860-1920
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26 Cubic feet (49 boxes, 4 oversize folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0293
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection documents, in correspondence, publications, forms, paperwork, drawings, newspaper clippings, diplomas and photographs, the operations and products of the Frick Company of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, manufacturers of steam-powered engines (portable, stationary, and traction), sawmills, threshing machines, grain separators and other mechanized agricultural harvesting implements, refrigeration, mechanical cooling systems, and ice making plants, from its founding in 1852 through 1961.
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Jennewein, Carl Paul, 1890-
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1910-1977
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13.9 Linear feet ((on 20 microfilm reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.jenncarl
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
REEL 1467: Drawings, sketches, renderings, and designs, 1916-1976, for the following commissions: Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service, Brooklyn Central Library, the Finance Building of Harrisburg, Pa., and the Jefferson Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Nyland, Gretchen
Kitteredge, Blanche Anderson
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1890s-1920s
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0.6 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0122
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection consists of a photograph album and two scrapbooks compiled by Blanch Anderson Kitteredge, wife of Harold B. Anderson, and Lewis Harris Kitteredge. The photographs depict Alexander Winton; employees of the Winton Co. and their families; the Winton touring car; the Winton Bullet No. 2 (including being shipped in 1903 to Ireland for f...
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Vose Galleries of Boston
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circa 1876
1890s-1996
bulk 1920-1940
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25.6 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.vosegall
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Archives of American Art
The records of Vose Galleries of Boston measure 25.6 linear feet and date from circa 1876, 1890s-1996 with the bulk of materials dating from 1920s-1930s. Nearly 90 percent of the collection documents the gallery's handling of American paintings and portraits through incoming and outgoing business correspondence with artists, clients, galleries, and museums, including considerable correspondence with portrait artist Alfred Jonniaux and clients regarding commissioned portraits. Other materials include client files; artists' biographies; records of sales, consignments, framing, restoration, and banking, mostly from the 1940s-1960s; and scattered exhibition catalogs, newspaper clippings, and postcards. Also found is a handwritten manuscript regarding the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, PA and a 1991 videotape about the Vose Galleries and its founding family.
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Spreckels, Alma de Bretteville, 1881-1968
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1920-1978
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1 Linear foot ((on 2 microfilm reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.sprealma
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Archives of American Art
REELS 1732-1733: Letters from Loie Fuller, Queen Marie of Romania, and Malvina Hoffman; correspondence with Lloyd LaPage Rollins, Walter Heil, Thomas Carr Howe, Harry Noyes Pratt, and Clifford R. Dolph; manuscripts and legal documents about the founding of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor and Spreckles' gifts of art to museums; appraisa...
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Means, James, 1853-1920
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1892-1913
bulk 1895-1897
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1.8 Cubic feet ((4 legal document boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0394
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
James Means (1855-1920) was an American industrialist who sacrificed his business to devote himself to the promotion of aviation. The collection consists of correspondence, publications, photographs, and scrapbooks.